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Speaker 1: Hello, this is David Weinberg. If you've enjoyed The Superhero Complex,

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Speaker 1: you should check out another podcast from the team's at

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Speaker 1: Novel and I Heart Radio, deliver Us from Irville. It's

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Speaker 1: hosted by journalists Jesse Hyde, and it tells the story

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Speaker 1: of a group of Mormon dreamers who founded a town

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Speaker 1: in the Mexican desert in the nineteen forties. They wanted

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Speaker 1: to build the closest thing to paradise you could find

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Speaker 1: on Earth, But when the founding family's son, Irville LeBaron,

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Speaker 1: tried to wrestle control of the community, their utopia turned

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Speaker 1: into a murderous cult. Irville and his followers evolved this

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Speaker 1: cult into a sophisticated crime family, a wild kind of mafia,

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Speaker 1: operating unseen for decades, robbing banks, stealing cars, and smuggling

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Speaker 1: drugs with a Mexican cartel. As time passed, they enacted

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Speaker 1: a series of ever more elaborate fascinations following a blueprint

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Speaker 1: laid out by Irville LeBaron's Opus, the Book of the

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Speaker 1: New Covenants. In the show, Jesse, the host, speaks to

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Speaker 1: the reporters and cops who tried to hunt them down

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Speaker 1: and bring them to justice. Survivors of their attacks, as

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Speaker 1: well as insiders who grew up within this crime family.

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Speaker 1: Many of the interviewees have never spoken about this publicly before,

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Speaker 1: and the show includes previously unheard archive recordings from the

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Speaker 1: heart of the cult. Coming up next is the first episode.

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Speaker 1: If you want to hear more, search deliver Us from

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Speaker 1: Irville on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.